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family rainbow mountain, updated

I updated family rainbow mountain for this week's scrapiteria post.


It's now called the four corners of the world.

latest scrapiteria post

dad? is that you?

python

this post died under the long arm of my paper cutter

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is going to be a great day for collage. Buckets will invert themselves and become gloves. Tiny spinners will start listening intensely to Waylon Jennings records, and the inward slopes of beer bottles will turn out looking something like this:


These are a couple of birthday collages I made with the poet Emily Toder (she's so fine!) for the dual birthday party for the poets Seth Landman and Brian Mihok. I forget which was for which, but at this point it doesn't really matter.

Look out for more huge-ass work tomorrow. I've got a paper bag full of scraps that need adherence.

How High's the Water?

So I joined another co-authored blog called Scrapteria. I knocked on their blog door wearing my best suit and they said to me, come and join us, Jono, with your wine, glue, razor and scissors, come. And so I came, killed two birds with one stone, too. This is my first contribution, "How High's the Water?"

This collage is huge, dimensionally huge and personally huge. Months ago I started collecting empty 50 lb flour sacks from the pizza shop where I work, stashing them in the trunk of my car, meaning to use them as foundations for large collages. I'd also been going to NYC, to the MET, to study large collage works. Over a period of months I formulated some ideas about working big, ideas that included the crucial usage of spray adhesive: glue in aerosol form. The shit rules. Here's a detail:

Scrapteria has a weekly theme, and each week the authors interpret that theme with their collages. This week's theme is "The Great Flood." Well, I didn't put in any pictures of floods, but I think I nailed it anyway. There's certainly a flood of something, if only a flood of good feelings. Yeah, I'm super stoked. This baby is 16 x 27 inches. Not the biggest collage I've ever made (Bags! was the biggest), but damn close enough.

the kennedy cheese

Made in 1999, on Cottage Grove, Bloomington, Indiana, the Kennedy Cheese is 10 years old. Very ripe, hints of nuttiness. Speculation about its whereabouts persist.

family rainbow mountain

how a family rainbow mountain is made:

bad star-shaped cut-outs and no-thought layering; plus someone from Africa

happy birthday glue head

Well, I know some people will be happy about this new blog. Glue Head is ten minutes old. It still has junk on its eyes. I had sex with its mother about three hours ago. That's pretty good time for an animal.

What is Glue Head? Glue Head is a collage repository. It has jaundice. Happy birthday, Glue Head.